__/ [ peterwn ] on Thursday 15 March 2007 18:52 \__
> It seems various Government agencies are starting to recognise
> potential problems and have imposed moratoriums on Vista and Office
> 2007.
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
But hey? Who's that guy talking? Maybe he's just some Apple zealot.
NIST, DOT and FAA are also a minority and they are technically inapt, so they
can't see the benefits of Office.
Sarcasm aside, in addition to what Gordon has mentioned, consider this:
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| It details how Microsoft has built into Vista the "trusted
| computing" ability to lock down Office files via DRM such that
| no unauthorized document reader will be able to decrypt and
| read them. This is perhaps one of the biggest hidden weapons
| Microsoft has in its arsenal that could sabotage Linux and
| OpenOffice.org if Microsoft succeeds in its attempt to plug
| SUSE and all Novell's "interoperability" bonuses.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000142
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